Posted on 11/20/2005 4:09:36 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
NEW YORK, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The militantly pro-abortion Center For Reproductive Rights (CFRR) is touting a ruling yesterday by the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) as “a landmark decision establishing women’s right to access to legal abortion.”
The case was initiated by the Center for Reproductive Rights together with the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM) and the Counseling Center for the Defense of Women’s Rights (DEMUS) on behalf of Karen Llontoy, a young Peruvian woman who was not permitted to kill by abortion her anencephalic unborn child.
Through this case the UNHRC and CFRR hope to force Peru and other poor third world nations to eliminate pro-life laws. Worrisome to pro-life and sovereignty-respecting organizations it that this latest decision by the committee is the first time, in the words of the UNHRC, “an international human rights organization has held a government accountable for failing to ensure access to legal abortion services.”
This decision will undoubtedly be used by activist judges in various nations to justify challenges to laws currently restricting or prohibiting abortion because of its denial of the primary right to life of the unborn.
Samantha Singson, full-time UN Lobbyist for Campaign Life Coalition responded to yesterday’s development stating, “by this latest decision the UN is again overstepping its authority by trying to legislate and force a sovereign country to change its laws on abortion”. She emphasized that “there is no universal human right to abortion on demand and no treaty compliance committee (UNHRC) has any moral or legal authority to create one.”
And the Baby's Human Rights rank where???
UN Farm: We are all equal, but some of us are much more equal than others.
A pro-abortion group actually used the word "abortion" instead of some euphamism like "woman's right to choose"? These must be militant pro-abortionists indeed.
Since the UN Human Rights Commission condones wife beating by the Islamic countries - How could they not say abortion is OK.
Well, if women feel the same way as the UN they can always go live there.
I will never understand. Savages.
The U.S. doesn't belong in the U.N. The U.N. doesn't belong in the U.S.
The very title is self-refuting.
This is barbaric - the killing of the unborn innocent is considered a Human Right? How much lower can the UN go? And how much longer will we remain members of this barbaric orgaization?
Screw them.
The U.S. central government is right in line with the U.N. on this and at least 50,000,000 babies have been shredded to death in this country since 1973.
How much lower can the UN go...
Wait and see...
Abortion proponent plaintiff site: http://www.crlp.org/crt_ab_access_legal.htmlWhy are they so concerned about whether she could have an abortion, when they should have been more concerned about how the 16- or 17-year-old girl got pregnant? Also, I don't understand how she was forced to feed the anencephalic baby, when she could have simply let it die, although feeding a baby can have benefits for a postpartum mother.
Karen Noelia Llontoy Huamán v. Peru (U. N. Human Rights Committee; Peru)
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Karen Llontoy v. Peru
(U. N. Human Rights Committee; Peru)
In 2001, Karen Llontoy, a 17-year-old Peruvian woman carrying a fetus with a fatal anomaly (anencephaly), was denied a therapeutic abortion by Peruvian health officials, despite Peruvian law’s exception for pregnancy termination for health reasons. Llontoy was compelled to carry the fetus to term and was then forced to feed the baby until his inevitable death several days later. The Center for Reproductive Rights, the Counseling Center for the Defense of Women’s Rights (DEMUS), and the Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM) filed a complaint. The complaint seeks a remedy under the ICCPRUN Human Rights Committee in 2002 for state officials’ failure to protect Llontoy’s right to be free from inhumane and degrading treatments, among others.
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